Wei Chen is an associate professor at Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University and performed his postdoctoral research with the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on accelerated materials discovery integrating atomistic modeling and data-driven methods. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, NERSC High Impact Science Achievement Award, and BHP Billiton Fellowship. He can be reached by email at wchen66@iit.edu.